The opposite would be far worse, the situation they have in the US with home owners associations (HOA) is that the neighbourhood Karen gets to dictate where you park your car, how your garden must look, what pets you're permitted to have, the maximum length of your grass, so on and so forth. Imagine if your local curtain twitcher got power over you.

I prefer the freedom of the UK, a man's home is his castle (or woman's, why be sexist), having to put up with the small risk of a bad neighbour is much preferred to having someone dictate what your castle must look like.

The 1960s called, they want their complaints back.

One of my neighbours has a EV SUV, you hear that 2.5 tonne monster rattling down the road at 5 AM every morning, it's louder than my other neighbours diesel van (who goes to work at 7:30 like a normal person). Engines have been quiet for decades now. My first car was a mid 90's Honda Civic (VTI with the 1.6L Honda D engine) and I remember having to check whether the thing was on at traffic lights because I was worried that I'd stalled it, the thing was so quiet and calm.

The majority of road noise get caused by weight these days, specifically the noise of the tyres impacting the road, especially with the harder tyres they put on EVs to reduce rolling resistance. EV drivers think they're cars are silent for the same reason Diesel drivers think their cars are silent, because the cabin has been insulated from any kind of outside noise or feedback.

Yes. Fewer toxic components plus you get rid of another F-150 and two American flags at the same time.

As a PC gamer who wisely avoided the whole "wannabe PC" console craze, I can't think of anything worse than Microsoft trying to consolise the PC. They tried to PC-ise the console and that didn't work because it's not possible. Consolising the PC is possible but won't work because few people would want to deliberately hobble their gaming PC (you can dumb down but you can't dumb up).

With Valve making a serious play towards Linux compatibility, MS risks shooting themselves in the foot by trying to force PC gamers into a limited, Microsoft controlled environment.

Because that's how capitalism works Timmy.

You wouldn't want public money going to public services like healthcare, education, municipal transport and utilities or even *gasp* helping people who could use assistance. That would be columnunism or some such. We can't have anything like that so public money must flow towards private companies so they can pay fewer costs whilst avoiding more tax.

Weren't these the same nutbars who said we should take horse de-wormer instead of proven COVID vaccinations because the vaccinations had 5G chips in them?

Now they want us all to get 5G chips on our wrists that are tied to some of the most morally ambiguous companies on the planet.

Riiiiiiiight.

This.

And since that training data has been scraped from the Internet at large with little or no quality control, there is no assurance of a correct answer.

I remember when "Google-bombing" became a thing. Shortly after 9/11, it was likely that a search for "who brought down the WTC" would lead you through a chain of authoritative sounding articles about it being an inside job.

The Internet is full of bullshit.

It has already been said, in many other threads, that the jobs most at risk for AI replacement, are those of CEOs.

Thanks,

Not really big on multiplayer games any more either... I've just gotten too old.

I think credit scores are a terrible idea to begin with and I'm glad I've never lived in a country where one is necessary...or even commonplace. Sure Experian try to sell it but lenders all do their own analysis and set their own criteria when it comes to lending. It makes applications a bit more complex but realistically if you can't handle filling our a multi-page online form to get 1000's if not 100's of thousands of pounds, you really shouldn't get it. It forces you to know what your income is, what your debt liability is and what your outgoings are in order to get a loan because you'll need to satisfy a lender that you have the capability to repay a loan as they're the ones on the hook if they approve it and you can't.

Millions of Americans have regular payday loans, 10s of millions if not hundreds. They're called Credit Cards.

When I was a lad (which for context, was some time after Jesus was a lad) "Living pay cheque to pay cheque" was a shameful admission that you had no savings and basically relied on your entire pay to service your bills, rent/mortgage and had some left over for necessities. Now it's almost a positive as it means you're not going into debt every month to pay for your day to day bills and necessities. Many are now living credit repayment to credit repayment. Their entire pay goes on paying off the credit card bill from last month (and maybe paying the mortgage out of your salary) with nothing left over for this month, they go into debt again to pay for food, clothing, bills, et al.

Any unexpected bill or all the gods, old and the new, forbid you lose your job and you're now in debt you're going to struggle to repay. Your entire last pay cheque goes on paying off last months credit card bill.

For some reason it's not considered as bad even though it is, in many ways, worse as it's a perpetual cycle of debt that no-one seems to even try to get out of. Almost as if banks are making huge amounts of money of keeping people using credit, almost like they take a cut of every card transaction and force the merchant to hide it.

Soon will be.

I was going to comment that they've finally reached the point Android was at what... 7 or 10 years ago. I get a new Android phone, it downloads all my backed up files automatically, re-installs my apps, adjusts my settings to the last phone I was using even if that phone is no longer working... But it appears they aren't even there yet. Just swapping one device for another.

The bigger problem is going to be as AI becomes indistinguishable from humans in dating apps, the owners will pack their apps with AI women to keep men paying the monthly fee.

I think the problem was assuming Gates was the source of all evil at MS, he was just part of the problem but not the entirety of it. So the rot remains even though he's long gone.

The problem MS has is that it's spent over a decade ignoring PC gamers in the vain hope they'll buy a console and submit to total MS control. That hasn't happened and now the consoles are getting as expensive as gaming PCs but nowhere near as good. PC gamers don't need Microsoft beyond the OS, they don't want Microsoft beyond the OS so MS is trying it's tried and tested E.E.E strategy to try to force their way into the PC gaming world. Windows was only ever something gamers tolerated because there was no alternative, this fortunately, is no longer the case as a lot of Steam games will run on Linux, it'll begin with Steam Decks and dual booting, it'll end with MS being a relic.. The more you tighten your grip Microsoft, the more gamers will slip through your fingers.

This, it can fuck right off.

I've had it up to my back teeth with superfluous launchers, the last thing I want is MS Spyware being yet another hoop I need to jump through to get to my games.

I think we might be at the point where most of my games will run on Linux, checked the last dozen I played on Steam and they're all gold or platinum. Might test it out on my travel laptop and make my gaming PC dual boot before MS tries to kill W10. Now all I need to worry about are my GOG games... most of those are so old that they'll probably run fine under WINE or even emulation.